Low-pressure cast aluminum wheel mold

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10328487-B2
Application number	US-201715596279-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 16, 2017
Priority date	Mar 19, 2017
Publication date	Jun 25, 2019
Grant date	Jun 25, 2019

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a low-pressure cast aluminum wheel mold. The back cavity of a top mold (1) is divided into three parts: the back cavity in a rim area is open, and the wall thickness of the top mold is progressively increased by 15-25 mm from bottom to top; the back cavity in a spoke area is machined in a profile-followed manner, and the top mold has an equal wall thickness of 20-30 mm; at each R angle position where the rim is connected with a spoke, the top mold is provided with a boss (11), the axial wall thickness of the boss (11) is 40-60 mm, and the radial wall thickness is 30-50 mm. A temperature gradient beneficial to progressive solidification of a casting is constructed; by designing an annular water cooling structure at the R angle where the rim is connected with the spoke, quick cooling on the hot spot is specifically realized, the cooling capability is stronger, the cooling range is more exact, bad influence on the adjacent thin-wall part is not produced, and smooth feeding of molten aluminum is ensured.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A low pressure cast aluminum wheel mold, comprising a top mold, a side mold, a bottom mold, water pipe connectors, a cover plate, a division plate and heat insulation asbestos, is characterized in that a first back cavity of the top mold is divided into three parts: a second back cavity in a spoke area is machined in a profile-followed manner, and the top mold has an equal wall thickness of 20-30 mm; and at each R angle position where the rim is connected with a spoke, the top mold is provided with a boss, a axial wall thickness of the boss is 40-60 mm, and a radial wall thickness is 30-50 mm.

2. The low-pressure cast aluminum wheel mold of claim 1 , wherein the top of the boss is a plane, the side is a conical surface, and the top and side of the boss smoothly transit to adjacent parts respectively with fillets; an annular water channel having a U-shaped section is provided on the boss, the middle of the annular water channel is divided into two parts by the division plate, and the division plate is composed of two metal sheets having L-shaped sections and is close to one side of the spokes; the cover plate is arranged on the annular water channel, the cover plate is welded and sealed on the annular water channel, and the cover plate is provided with water holes on which water inlet pipe connectors and water outlet pipe connectors are welded; the water inlet pipe connectors and the water outlet pipe connectors are two in and two out, and are distributed symmetrically in a 180° crossing manner; an upper heat insulation slot is formed at the lower end of the rim above the boss, perpendicular to the profile of the rim and stuffed with the heat insulation asbestos; a lower heat insulation slot is formed at the tail end of the spoke below the boss, perpendicular to the spoke and stuffed with the heat insulation asbestos.

3. The low-pressure cast aluminum wheel mold of claim 2 , wherein the width of the top of the boss is 15-20 mm, and the side of the boss and the axial direction form an included angle of 5-10°; the size of a transition fillet between the boss and an adjacent part is set to R 5-10 mm; on the boss 11 is provided a U-shaped annular water channel 12 , having a width of 8 mm, a height of 12 mm and a root of R 2-5 mm; the thicknesses of water channel partitions 15 are more than 10 mm, the thickness of the division plate is 2 mm, the diameters of the circular water holes 51 are 14 mm, the width of the heat insulation slot a is 6-8 mm, the root of the heat insulation slot a is spaced more than 10 mm from the cavity surface, the width of the heat insulation slot b 14 is 6-8 mm, and the root of the heat insulation slot b 14 is spaced more than 10 mm from the profile.

Assignees

• Citic Dicastal Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wang Kaiqing
• Li Hongbiao
• Wang Xu
• Li Changhai
• Zhao Yongwang
• Zhou Honghai

Classifications

• B22C9/065

  Cooling or heating equipment for moulds · CPC title

• B22C9/28 Primary

  for wheels, rolls, or rollers {(B22D15/005 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• B22D18/04

  Low pressure casting, i.e. making use of pressures up to a few bars to fill the mould · CPC title